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  2. Detuner - Wikipedia

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    Bass guitarist and youtuber Charles Berthoud also makes extensive use of detuners, generally on a LeFay D-Tuner (which as the name hints was designed with a detuner on each string). Adrian Legg is a popular guitarist making use of rapid tuning changes. He was prominent in the late 1980s. The idea may have originated from the double bass extenders.

  3. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Tuning pins may be known as wrest pins or zither pins, regardless of the instrument on which they are used. They are used on instruments with many close strings, as they are more compact and cheaper. Modern pianos use threaded pins, as do many harps, psaltries, dulcimers, zithers, and other instruments.

  4. List of instruments used in anatomy - Wikipedia

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    sharp cutting instruments Toothed forceps: for tearing or holding structures Mallet: used as a hammer: Skull key: a T-shaped chisel used as a lever while removing skull cap [1] Large knife: to cleanly cut the brain into anatomical sections Rib shears: to cut through the ribs while opening the chest [2] Dissecting scissors: for sharp cutting ...

  5. Extended-range bass - Wikipedia

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    Another way to get an extended range is to add strings. The most common type of bass guitar with more than four strings is the five-string bass. Five-string basses often have a low-B string, extending the instrument's lower range. Less commonly, five-string instruments add a high C-string, extending the higher range.

  6. List of instruments used in otorhinolaryngology, head and ...

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    Instrument Uses Head Mirror with head band: to focus light into the cavity under inspection; mirror is concave and is used with a Chiron lamp to produce a parallel beam of light; doctor views through the hole (average diameter of mirror is 3 & 1/2" & that of hole is 1/4") Head mounted lights with head band: to focus light into the cavity under ...

  7. Margaret Stephen (midwife) - Wikipedia

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    In the following decade, surgeons started to have some success in delivering live births in cases of obstructed labour, using a technique relying on obstetric instruments, particularly forceps, and by around the middle of the century, male midwives (called "man-midwives" or "accoucheurs") were increasingly becoming fashionable, especially among ...

  8. Endodontic files and reamers - Wikipedia

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    Miscellaneous endodontic instruments. From left: Lentulo spiral, reamer, K-file and H-file. Hand files can provide tactile sensation when cleaning or shaping root canals. This allows the dentist to feel changes in resistance or angulation, which can help determine curvature, calcification and/or changes in anatomy, in which two dimensional radiographs may not always identif

  9. Instruments used in general surgery - Wikipedia

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    There are many different surgical specialties, some of which require specific kinds of surgical instruments to perform.. General surgery is a specialty focused on the abdomen; the thyroid gland; diseases involving skin, breasts, and various soft tissues; trauma; peripheral vascular disease; hernias; and endoscopic procedures.